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humanbyweight · 2 hours

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I'm still fussing with it here and there, but

Here is the official cover reveal for my upcoming book, THE CICADAS OF NORTH AMERICA!

Preorders are available NOW at www.OwlflyLLC.com/publications !!!

#cicada #book #Owlfly LLC

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pbbeta24 · 2 days

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Only three days left (Cloud Empress TTRPG)

#illustration #artists on tumblr #ttrpg #kickstarter #cicada #bugs #pbbetart #black and white

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aurosoul · 8 months

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OP made this post unrebloggable but me and my bf made this meme in a fit of obsession and it had to be shared

#cicada #bugs #PIERCE AND SUCK #BUT DON'T WORRY #incessant meowing #things

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nymori · 1 month

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I've been stitching some cicadas lately. This year is going to be a big one for the screaming bugs!

For those interested in making their own cross stitched cicadas, the patterns are available for sale here and here! (Please note: my software skills mean that I had to freehand the AAAAAs rather than place them in the pattern itself, so those are not included in the patterns. This does mean that you can make these little guys uniquely your own and add any sort of scream that you'd like, though!)

#cross stitch #art #embroidery #cicada #bug #scream #stitch #xstitch #craft #insect #screaming #aaaaaa #periodical cicada #this is the most time I have ever spent looking at a bug #worth it #my art #handmade #homemade

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herpsandbirds · 22 days

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Cicada (Tacua speciosa), family Cicadidae, found in SE Asia

photograph by EnnisFei (@ennisanna_fei)

#cicada #tacua #cicadidae #hemiptera #insect #entomology #animals #nature #asia

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ryancat · 5 months

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cicada for my 2D design and color theory class 👍

#digital art #csp #art #cicada #bug art

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sticksnails · 1 year

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#cicada #art #short poem

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crevicedwelling · 8 months

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the paralyzed cicadas I picked up from a failed cicada killer nest are the perfect material to show off some cool features of insect anatomy! (although the wasp’s venom would keep them alive for her larvae to eat, I froze them to make sure they’re fully dead for dissection).

cicadas are powerful, fast fliers, and all of their thorax is taken up by a bulk of reddish, stringy flight muscles, which I’ll talk more about later. this cicada is a female, so her abdomen is full of white, elongated eggs that she will insert into tree bark with the bladed ovipositor at her rear.

the male cicada’s abdomen, however, is almost entirely empty, and that air-filled space is used as a resonator for his loud calls. the biggest structure visible there is a curved pair of muscles that deforms the tymbals, producing a click with every contraction.

here's a view of the complete muscle, and the tymbals themselves which look like overlapping plates on his belly. if you're curious what the white frosted appearance is, some Neotibicen have a coat of waxy powder or pruinescence; this male N. tibicen is particularly pruinose.

onto the flight muscles:

powered flight is a pretty complex mechanism in any organism, and is never so simple as just flapping wings up and down, but most insects power their flight in a really unintuitive way (at least for us vertebrates): they contract muscles in their thorax that aren’t even attached to the wings!

this method of flight is called indirect flight, in contrast to the direct flight of the dragonflies and mayflies where each of four wings is directly attached to a muscle and can flap on its own.

instead, most insects have a longitudinal (image 1 above, d below) pair and a vertical (2, c) pair of muscles that deform the shape of abdomen, pulling the upper segment of the thorax (notum) up and down, and this moves the wings which are attached to the notum. useful indirect flight gif from wikipedia found here

even if compressed manually, the dead cicadas "flap" their wings due to the motion of the notum:

insect flight is a lot more complicated than this simplified look at them, but I think these cicadas offer a pretty good look at how most insects get around essentially by squishing themselves internally!

#bugs #insect anatomy #insect flight #cicada

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mollyvega · 1 month

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Home decor, and statement jewelry. What can’t Alejandro do?!💖

#cicada #pendant #necklace #insect jewelry

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dammit-theclown · 2 months

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Cicada backpack cicada backpack

#dammit cinematic universe #lowest-effort pictures imaginable i’m so sorry lol #bugs #bugblr #cicadas #cicada #entomology #insects

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mushroomyhouse · 4 months

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Buggie 🐛🪲

by @hehymnhis

🪲 mush.house/hehymn 🐛

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ex0skeletal-undead · 2 months

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Illustrations by Babs Webb

This artist on Instagram

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katarinanavane · 1 year

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I've just finished making these ancient Roman inspired "laurel wreath" crowns out of jewel beetle shells and preserved 17 year cicada wings. I've done three of the jewel beetle ones, so one is in my Etsy (link in bio), the cicada wing one is one of a kind so far so I haven't listed it yet. I'm really happy with how these came out!